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Meth: Vicious Cycle Part 1
Aug 20th
This 1/2 hour educational documentary will take you inside the world of meth addiction. Interviews with recovering addicts, treatment, healthcare, environmental and law enforcement professionals make clear the physical, psychological, criminal, environmental, and familial impacts of Meth use. www.RucinskiReetz.com 715-355-9159
BRAIN & BEHAVIOR equips viewers with an understanding of how meth changes the brain and, consequently, behavior. 3D animations, accessible explanations, and personal accounts help viewers understand complex scientific concepts. Users learn how to better cope with the stages of meth addiction and recovery by gaining an understanding of the biological underpinnings of the high, tolerance, craving, paranoia, aggression, anhedonia, and healing.
Video Rating: 3 / 5
How Does Addiction Begin? (Part Two -of The Cycle of Addiction)
Jan 7th
Is a person genetically or bio-chemically predisposed to addiction or alcoholism?
Various postulates along such lines have been put forward over the years and debated within the scientific and chemical dependency communities. That this has produced no truly effective solution to drug addiction, VERY poor recovery rates and a WORSENING drugs epidemic tells us the aforementioned communities may have been barking up a very wrong tree.
Another school of thought and another wrong tree, advocates the “disease concept” of drug addiction, which postulates that addiction is an inherited disease and the individual is permanently ill at a genetic level.
In other words, “nothing can be done about it” because the problem is imprinted in the DNA – the classic psychiatric method of explaining away tax payers’ billions wasted on abject failure to effectively resolve…well, anything!
No conclusive proof for the “gene” theory of addiction has been produced incidentally, although the false datum has crept into the society. One will often hear addicts describing themselves as having an “addictive personality” – usually because that is what they have been told by a therapist who had no real answers. Think about the message hidden in that false datum: “there’s nothing you – or WE - can do about it because you are inherently flawed. You’re stuck with it pal!” This theory, while it “scientifically” explains away failures has yet produced no successul strategy or workable methodology for actually helping human beings beat drug addiction. If our goal is to do something effective to actually help people, then it has been useless.
Another philosophy argues that addiction is a double-stranded problem consisting of a physical and mental dependency on chemicals, compounded by a pre-existing mental illness that needs to be treated first as the primary cause of the addiction. Such a mental illness would be so-called clinical depression, bipolar disorder, or some other piece of elastically defined psychobabble.
As for psychiatry’s lack of diagnostic criteria or actual evidence for any of the “illnesses” listed its Diagnostic Manual and the quackery that accompanies its diagnosis and “treatment,” please don’t get me started…..I’ll cover psychiatry’s Great Diagnosis Con in a later article.
Suffice to say here, the “mental illnesses” purported without evidence to underlie drug addiction usually require drugs to treat them. The stupidity of using drug to cure an addiction to drugs should be obvious and needless to say that approach has produced – surprise, surprise – not just failure but a deepening drugs crisis!
Yet another philosophy subscribes to the idea that drug dependency leads to permanent “chemical imbalances” in the neurological system that must be treated with psychotropic medications after the person has withdrawn from their drug of choice. Again, a lovely way of milking the addict’s misery of every last drop of profit but only a partial truth.
Yes, extensive abuse of some drugs can cause permanent damage, but PSYCHOTROPIC MEDICATIONS ARE THE WORST OFFENDERS.
The degree of damage that would necessitate, say, tranquillisers to enable the person to function is rare and almost never resuts from abuse of street drugs. In my experience most addicts, although they have harmed themselves through the long-term imbibing of chemical poisons and asssociated malnutrition and so forth, can and do make a very good recovery with the right treatment, such as that provided on the Narconon program. And harmful psychiatric poisons are the very last thing they need.
None of the above, at best partial, truths have paved the way for an effective solution to the drugs problem.
There is another way of looking at the problem that DOES open the door to a much more effective handling of the problem.
The addict is NOT mentally ill, does not have a brain disease and is not genetically defective:
Addiction begins with pain.
I will cover this more fully in part three of this essay; “Addiction Begins With Pain”
Addiction Begins With Pain (Part Three – The Cycle of Addiction)
Jan 3rd
No-one sets out to become a drug addict.
Every cycle of addiction begins with a difficulty that for the person is extremely uncomfortable and for which he struggles to find an answer. A person experiences in his life some problem or difficulty that is physically or emotionally painful. Addiction begins with physical or emotional pain.
This can be something as apparently “innocuous” as shyness or the chronic dread that comes with trying to live in an environment the person perceives as threatening or dangerous. (why do you think addiction is so widespread in “rough” or criminal neighbourhgoods? The environment contains a continual high level of threat!) Other examples include difficulty “fitting in” as a child or teenager, the turmoil of puberty, or some painful chronic physical condition.
From the perception of the individual, the problem is a major personal misery from which he can see no immediate escape or relief. Most of us have experienced something like this in our lives at one time or another. Many of us were lucky enough to survive the difficulty, to find a solution or alleviation that avoided drugs.
We live however in a society where drugs are heavily pushed on us as easy “solutions” to our problems: aspirin for a headache, prozac and other antidepressants for “seasonal blues,” alcohol to render us socially more at ease or “recreational” drugs to “release” us from drudgery.
Indeed, the psychiatric pharmaceutical foes of Man profit from successfully persuading us to pop pills to quick-fix every ill and more pills to quick-fix the ills preciptated by the first pills and so on.
We have sunk from a race that a generation or two ago lived through World War Two without becoming mentally deranged to one where increasing number of people are persuaded they need pills to get them through the seasonal blues of Christmas!
This introduces a burgeoning legal and illegal drug culture and the pushing of drugs into society as “medicine” is the virus that spawned our drugs epidemic.
There are two broad categories of pusher and drug baron with a vested interest in turning as many people as possible into drug addicts and both of which often target children as potential life-long customers.
The first category is the type of person most commonly understood to be a “pusher:” the street criminal whose sale and distribution heirarchy extends all the way up to the arch-criminal drug overlords.
The second is the corporate pusher: the medical practitioner/psychiatrist who dispenses psychiatric medications from his surgery, extending up though a hierarchy of drug sales operations and drugs manufacturing to the overlordship of the pharmaceutical giants. These stand at the apex of a massive global drugs empire that utterly dwarfs anything achieved by the illegal drugs industry.
Marketing campaigns obscure the true lethal nature of the drugs and engender a culture in which human beings will more readily imbibe chemicals to “solve” their problems.
Spawned by the aforementioned vested interests, one sees an outpouring of literature, the glamorization of drugs by irresponsible (and often drug-addicted) song- and film-makers and other avenues of pro-drug propaganda that influence social attitudes. From this comes the peer pressure that determines the readiness with which the person will turn to a drug to alleviate his pain, his belief in the “harmlessness” of the drug and the type of drug to which he will turn.
But this it a TRAP.
Every trap, to be effective, has to have a juicy bait that will entice the prey into it. The bait is the sense of release from discomfort the person feels when he takes a drug.
Albeit that relief is but temporary – and sometimes VERY temporary - it is perceived as a solution to the discomfort with which the individual was struggling and the individual thereafter places value on the drug or drink; it becomes his way out from pain. This perceived value is the only reason the person ever persists with drugs or drink.
The severity of use of the drug is determined primarily by the degree of relief the person experiences. Put simply: the greater the discomfort the person has been experiencing, the more importance the person places on relieving it and the greater the value he therefore assigns to that which brought about the relief.
This is the beginning of the indvidual’s road down into the sticky dark of their personal hell of relentless misery and despair, ever greater pain that they seek to alleviate with more and more drugs.
More on this spiral of addiction in my next article
The Cycle of Addiction- Part Four
Jan 2nd
Increasing numbers of people have become intimately acquainted with the misery of drug addiction: either their own addiction or the addiction of someone they know or care about.
There is a pattern to the onset and progress of drug addiction that is the same for every addiction, whether alcohol addiction, cocaine addiction, methamphetamine addiction, heroin addiction, or addiction to the most pernicious of all drugs: psychiatric medications.
THE PERSON IS IN SOME PHYSICAL OR EMOTIONAL PAIN THAT SEEMS TO HAVE NO RESOLUTION.
THEY TRY TO ESCAPE IT BY TAKING DRUGS.
THE PERSON FINDS THAT DRUGS GIVE A TEMPORARY RELIEF BUT WHEN THE DRUG WEARS OFF, THE PAIN RETURNS, SO THE PERSON CONTINUES TO TAKE THE DRUGS.
DRUGS ACT ON THE BODY LIKE POISONS, DEPLETING ITS VITAMINS AND MINERALS AND WITH CONTINUED USE OF THE DRUG, THE BODY’S ABILITY TO PRODUCE CERTAIN CHEMICALS SUCH AS VITAMINS IS CRIPPLED BECAUSE THESE CHEMICALS ARE REPLACED BY THE DRUG.
DEPRIVED OF ITS OWN NATURAL RESOURCES AND WITH THE ABILITY TO CREATE THEM INCREASINGLY IMPAIRED, THE BODY PERCEIVES THAT IT NEEDS THE DRUG TO FUNCTION AND DEMANDS THE DRUG THROUGH PHYSICAL CRAVINGS.
THE BODY HUNGERS FOR THE DRUGS THE WAY A STARVING MAN WOULD HUNGER FOR NUTRITION. THESE CRAVINGS BECOME SO SEVERE THAT THE ADDICT WILL DO ALMOST ANYTHING TO GET MORE OF THE DRUG.
IT IS DIFFICULT FOR ANYONE WHO HAS NOT SUFFERED ADDICTION TO IMAGINE HOW SEVERE AND RELENTLESS THOSE CRAVINGS BECOME.
THE ADDICT COMMITS INCREASINGLY SERIOUS MISDEEDS AGAINST HIS FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND HIMSELF TO SATISFY THOSE UNRELENTING CRAVINGS. GRADUALLY HIS PREVIOUS PERSONAL CODES OF CONDUCT, HIS PERSONAL STANDARDS OF BEHAVIOUR ARE ABANDONED.
BECAUSE OF THOSE MISDEEDS. THE ADDICT FEELS INCREASINGLY DEGRADED, CANNOT FACE HIMSELF AND SO DIVES DEEPER INTO DRUGS.
THE PERSON IS NOW TRAPPED IN FULL BLOWN DRUG ADDICTION.
Addiction is a particularly vicious and destructive trap. Most drug addicts or alcoholics are, prior to their addiction, intelligent and most often creative persons with much hope for the future.
The shambling, malnourished criminal types to whom you give a wide berth on your city streets are usually in the final stages of a long and agonized downfall that began with a pain that would not resolve and winds up in a wide, cloying sea of agony.
Fortunately, when you understand the true reason for addiction, a door to an effective solution opens before you.
There IS a road out for the addict, a road that does not involve drugs of any kind. It a far more effective and workable road than has been provided before.
To find out more about it, you can contact Narconon or email me via my blog and I will point you in the right direction..
